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DEVELOPING · PRIMARY AWARD RECORD PENDING

REPORTED · PRIMARY AWARD RECORD PENDING · Reviewed through August 28, 2026

DHS said it had stopped using WEXMAC. A new San Antonio order is now reported under it.

ICE bought a 639,595-square-foot San Antonio warehouse for a planned processing center. A new GardaWorld conversion order is now reported under the same WEXMAC vehicle the DHS secretary said in June was no longer being used.

The reported amount, ceiling, and WEXMAC linkage remain attributed to Project Salt Box until the primary task-order record is captured and reconciled.

01

What is reported

One source reports the order itself. It is named here, and every figure that comes from it is labelled as reported.

Project Salt Box reports that ICE awarded GardaWorld $17.3 million on August 27 to begin converting the San Antonio warehouse, under WEXMAC TITUS, with a reported $1 billion ceiling.

Does not establish: The exact PIID, accounting fields, signed scope, competition, period, payment, or outlay.

Property purchase

$66.1M

Reported property purchase

Property acquisition is separate from conversion and operating contracts.

January 20, 2026 · reported deed signature date

Reported initial order action

$17.3M

Reported initial GardaWorld task-order action

Do not label this obligated, current award, paid, or outlayed until the primary task-order record resolves the field.

August 27, 2026 · reported

Reported potential ceiling

$1.0B

Reported potential task-order ceiling

Potential value is never added to the reported initial action or property purchase.

August 27, 2026 · reported

These are three unlike financial objects: a real-estate purchase, an order amount whose federal accounting field is unresolved, and a potential ceiling. They are never added together, and none of them is a payment.

Parent vehicle context

Parent vehicle context

$65.0B

WEXMAC TITUS potential maximum per contractor

Parent-vehicle context only. No funding was obligated by the ceiling modification; task orders carry funding.

January 16, 2026 · exact

This figure belongs to the parent contract vehicle across all of its work, not to San Antonio. It is shown for context and is not facility money.

Federal award fields, as of this record

Task-order identifier
Not captured
Federal award ID
Not captured
Obligated
Not captured
Outlayed
Not captured
Current award value
Not captured
Period of performance
Not captured
Competition method
Not captured
Offers received
Not captured
02

What is independently verified

Claims a primary or corroborated record supports on their own, apart from the report of the order.

03

The property

The place itself, held as its own record. A property purchase is not a services contract.

Address
542 S.E. Loop 410, San Antonio, TX 78220 (Bexar County)
Reported size
639,595 sq ft · 39.8 acres
Reported planned population
1,000–1,500 people daily
People currently held
Not established in reviewed sources
Operator
Not established in reviewed sources
Also known as
Oakmont 410 · 542 S.E. Loop 410 warehouse · San Antonio ICE processing facility · East Side ICE warehouse

Open the facility record

04

The contract vehicle

The parent contract the reported order is said to run under. A parent vehicle carries no money of its own.

Vehicle
Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract — Territorial Integrity of the U.S. (WEXMAC TITUS)
Parent contract identifier
N00023-25-D-0032
Holder
GardaWorld Federal Services LLC
How money moves
Additional funds are obligated at task-order level when specific requirements are issued.

The parent identifier above is not the San Antonio order. It is the vehicle the report says that order runs under, and it must never be used as the order’s own identifier.

05

The apparent public-record conflict

Three dated public statements that do not sit easily together.

Apparent public-record conflict

Three dated public statements about the same contract vehicle, from three different kinds of record, in eleven weeks.

What the sequence supports

Read together, these three records do not sit easily with one another. That is an unresolved question about the public record, not a finding about anyone's conduct.

Explanations that would resolve it without anyone having misstated anything

  • The statement may have referred to a narrower scope than the whole vehicle.
  • Policy may have changed between June 25 and August 27.
  • The reported order may differ in detail from the primary record once that record is captured.

Who can answer it

Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  • An agency statement of what “it” referred to on June 25 — the whole vehicle, one order, or one category of work.
  • A dated chronology of any suspension, resumption or continued use of WEXMAC for detention and warehouse conversion work.
  • The primary San Antonio task-order record, which would establish the award date, the contracting office and the scope.

This sequence requires an agency explanation. It is not presented as proof that anyone knowingly lied.

06

The dated record

Each entry carries the certainty of its own date: exact, reported, or the date a report was published.

  1. December 20, 2024exact

    GardaWorld receives WEXMAC IDIQ N00023-25-D-0032

    The Navy announces the original multiple-award WEXMAC vehicle. Individual requirements and funding are to be issued through task orders.

  2. January 16, 2026exact

    WEXMAC TITUS ceiling modification announced

    The potential maximum with options rises to as much as $65 billion per contractor; no funding is obligated by the ceiling modification.

  3. January 20, 2026reported deed date

    Oakmont 410 deed reportedly signed

    Deed-based reporting later identifies a $66.1 million federal purchase of the 639,595-square-foot property.

  4. February 3, 2026report publication date

    San Antonio purchase becomes public

    Local reporting identifies Oakmont 410 as the planned 1,500-person processing-center property.

  5. February 13, 2026report publication date

    Regional processing-center plan reported

    A planning document describes short-stay regional centers for roughly 1,000–1,500 people and a then-current Nov. 30 target.

  6. April 8, 2026exact

    San Antonio mayor asks DHS to reconsider

    Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones requests transparency and reconsideration of the planned facility.

  7. June 9, 2026exact

    GAO says ICE plans continued WEXMAC warehouse use

    GAO warns that ICE plans to use WEXMAC to renovate and operate warehouses could repeat acquisition and oversight failures.

  8. June 25, 2026exact

    Secretary Mullin says DHS is no longer using WEXMAC

    During a House Appropriations hearing, Mullin interrupts Rep. Veronica Escobar's question: “We're not using it anymore, just so you know.”

  9. July 2, 2026report publication date

    ICE confirms San Antonio plan remains active but delayed

    Reporting on an ICE letter says the facility would hold an estimated 1,000–1,500 people daily and open by 2027; no vendor contract had yet been awarded.

  10. August 27, 2026reported

    Project Salt Box reports GardaWorld order

    The report gives a $17.3 million initial figure, a $1 billion potential ceiling, and WEXMAC TITUS linkage. The exact task-order record remains pending.

  11. August 28, 2026exact

    Detention Receipts research cutoff

    The exact task-order PIID had not been captured through the reviewed public search or current tracked-award inventory.

07

What this record does not establish

The limits are part of the record, not a disclaimer beneath it.

  • The exact task-order PIID, signed award terms, current obligation, outlay, period, competition method, or number of offers.
  • That $17.3 million is an obligation, current award value, payment, or outlay rather than another federal accounting field.
  • That the reported $1 billion ceiling will be spent.
  • That the $65 billion WEXMAC maximum is assigned to San Antonio.
  • That GardaWorld will operate the facility or provide detention, medical, guard, or transportation services.
  • That the facility is open or currently holding anyone.
  • That Secretary Mullin knowingly made a false statement, or that the apparent contradiction cannot be explained by scope, timing, or a later policy change.
  • That the purchase price was excessive merely because an assessed value was lower.
  • That required environmental, floodplain, historic-preservation, or other reviews were absent; the relevant final records were not captured here.

Claims deliberately not drawn

  • DHS or the secretary made a knowingly false statement about ending WEXMAC use.

    The records establish an apparent conflict, not intent, exact scope, or the absence of a later policy change.

  • The reported GardaWorld order was improperly awarded.

    No signed award, competition file, legal review, or authoritative finding has been captured.

  • A guessed or pattern-derived San Antonio task-order identifier.

    Award identifiers must come from a primary record, never sequence inference.

  • GardaWorld operates or will operate the San Antonio facility.

    The reviewed report supports conversion work only. Award recipient is not an operator shortcut.

  • A single combined figure for money committed to the facility.

    Property purchase, reported initial action, and potential ceiling are unlike and non-additive financial objects.

  • The parent-vehicle maximum is available or assigned to San Antonio.

    That is parent-IDV potential context per contractor, not a task-order or facility amount.

  • The facility is open or occupied.

    No reviewed source establishes occupancy as of the cutoff.

  • ICE did not perform any environmental or other required review.

    The final site-specific record was not captured. Not located is not proof of absence.

  • The federal government paid more than Oakmont 410 was worth.

    Assessed value is not an independent market appraisal; acquisition valuation records remain missing.

  • The San Antonio task order was noncompetitive.

    No task-order competition or offers-received fields have been captured.

  • Physical conversion work has already started.

    The report says the order is to begin conversion; no mobilization or on-site work record was captured.

08

Open questions

Each question names the record that would answer it.

  1. Priority 1

    What is the exact task-order PIID and USAspending/FPDS award ID?

    Would be answered by: Signed task order, FPDS record, USAspending transaction, or NAVSUP order index.

  2. Priority 1

    What federal accounting field does the reported $17.3 million represent?

    Would be answered by: Action obligation, base-and-exercised value, current award amount, undefinitized amount, or another field on the primary transaction.

  3. Priority 1

    What exactly is included in the reported $1 billion ceiling?

    Would be answered by: Base/option CLINs, period, ceiling, and modification schedule.

  4. Priority 1

    Does the task order cover renovation only, or also activation, staffing, detention operations, guards, medical care, transportation, food, or maintenance?

    Would be answered by: Statement of work, performance work statement, CLIN schedule, and subcontracting plan.

  5. Priority 1

    How does DHS reconcile the order with Secretary Mullin's June 25 statement that the department was no longer using WEXMAC?

    Would be answered by: Agency explanation, policy memo, decision log, hearing correction, or chronology of suspension/resumption.

  6. Priority 2

    What competition method, task-order request, evaluation approach, and number of offers applied?

    Would be answered by: Acquisition plan, task-order solicitation, source-selection decision, and FPDS competition fields.

  7. Priority 2

    What are the signed award date, effective date, funded period, option periods, and appropriation accounts?

    Would be answered by: Task order and modifications.

  8. Priority 2

    Which exact legal entity owns title to Oakmont 410, and what is the deed instrument number?

    Would be answered by: Certified deed, title report, and Bexar County Clerk instrument.

  9. Priority 2

    What appraisal, independent government estimate, buy-versus-lease analysis, and price negotiation memorandum supported the $66.1 million acquisition?

    Would be answered by: Acquisition and appraisal file.

  10. Priority 2

    What site-specific environmental, floodplain, historic-preservation, water, wastewater, fire-protection, traffic, and emergency-service reviews are complete or pending?

    Would be answered by: Final agency reviews, notices, consultations, and implementation records.

  11. Priority 3

    What pre-occupancy inspection, quality-assurance plan, detention standards, medical capacity, legal-access design, accessibility plan, and emergency-response requirements apply?

    Would be answered by: Performance work statement, quality-assurance plan, pre-occupancy checklist, design package, and agency acceptance records.

  12. Priority 3

    What subcontractors, architects, engineers, appraisers, medical providers, security firms, and transport providers are involved?

    Would be answered by: Subcontracting plan, invoices, deliverables, and SAM/FSRS records.

Records requested

  • ICE Office of Acquisition Management / DHS Office of the Chief Procurement Officer

    2026-01-01 through 2026-08-28

    All task orders, modifications, acquisition plans, statements of work, performance work statements, CLIN schedules, independent government estimates, price negotiation memoranda, competition and offers-received records, source-selection documents, funding documents, invoices, and correspondence concerning GardaWorld Federal Services LLC, WEXMAC N00023-25-D-0032, Oakmont 410, 542 S.E. Loop 410, or a San Antonio processing center.

  • Naval Supply Systems Command / Department of the Navy

    2026-01-01 through 2026-08-28

    All order indexes, task-order requests, task orders, modifications, funding documents, contracting-officer decisions, and customer-agency correspondence under N00023-25-D-0032 that concern San Antonio, Texas; Oakmont 410; 542 S.E. Loop 410; ICE; DHS; or a service processing center.

  • DHS Office of the Secretary / ICE / DHS Chief Procurement Officer

    2026-06-01 through 2026-08-28

    Policies, memoranda, decision records, emails, briefing materials, and talking points concerning whether DHS or ICE had stopped, suspended, resumed, or continued using WEXMAC for detention, warehouse conversion, or processing-center services, including materials prepared for or following the June 25, 2026 House Appropriations hearing.

  • DHS Office of the Chief Readiness Support Officer / ICE / GSA as applicable

    2025-01-01 through 2026-08-28

    The acquisition file for 542 S.E. Loop 410, including deed and title materials, seller identity, appraisal, independent government estimate, comparable sales, buy-versus-lease analysis, due-diligence reports, environmental reviews, structural and utility assessments, approval chain, and purchase-price negotiation materials.

09

Primary record monitoring

This case is published while its primary federal award record is still missing. This section states exactly which fields that record would resolve, and what changes on the day it is captured.

DEVELOPING · PRIMARY AWARD RECORD PENDING

8 fields on this order remain unresolved. Each one below states what this record holds today, what the current wording rests on, and why the gap matters. None of them is shown as zero, and none is filled by inference.

Where the search has run

No task-order identifier is recorded here, because none has been captured. Searched through August 28, 2026 in: USAspending award and transaction search; FPDS contract-action search; SAM.gov contract-opportunity search; This project's own award ledger and tracked-award inventory.

No award-tracking row is created, because every tracked award in this project is keyed on a primary identifier this case does not have. These are the search keys a person or a later job uses to recognise the record; they are not evidence that the record exists in any system today.

What a match would have to carry

  • GARDAWORLD FEDERAL SERVICES LLC
  • N00023-25-D-0032
  • San Antonio
  • 542 SE Loop 410
  • Oakmont 410
  • 2026-08-27
  • 17,300,000
  • 1,000,000,000

Not captured yet

  • Task-order identifier (PIID)

    Not captured
    What the page rests on
    No source. The parent vehicle identifier N00023-25-D-0032 is a different record and is never used in its place.
    Why it matters
    Without it there is no primary transaction to reconcile against, and no way to confirm the order exists in federal records.
  • Federal award ID (USAspending / FPDS)

    Not captured
    What the page rests on
    No source. No identifier is derived, patterned or synthesised here.
    Why it matters
    It is the address at which every amount, modification and period would become checkable by anyone.
  • Accounting field behind the $17.3 million

    Unresolved
    What the page rests on
    Project Salt Box's August 28 report, which gives a figure but not the field it belongs to.
    Why it matters
    An obligation, a base-and-exercised value and an undefinitized amount are different claims about the same number.
  • Obligated and outlayed amounts

    Not captured
    What the page rests on
    No source. These fields are left unresolved rather than shown as zero.
    Why it matters
    Nothing here establishes that any money has been paid.
  • Period of performance

    Not captured
    What the page rests on
    No source.
    Why it matters
    The reported award date is not a start date and implies no end date.
  • Competition method and offers received

    Not captured
    What the page rests on
    No source.
    Why it matters
    Absent these fields, nothing supports a claim that the order was or was not competed.
  • Signed scope of work

    Not captured
    What the page rests on
    Project Salt Box's report, which describes conversion work and nothing beyond it.
    Why it matters
    Renovation, activation and detention operations are different scopes, and only the signed document separates them.
  • Facility operator

    Not established
    What the page rests on
    No source. Holding a conversion order is not evidence of an operating role.
    Why it matters
    Award recipient, operator and landlord are distinct roles and are never inferred from one another.

What changes once the primary record is captured

  1. 01

    The raw primary record is snapshotted immutably, with its retrieval time.

    Only when: A primary federal transaction record is located.

  2. 02

    The task-order identifier and federal award ID are recorded from that record, never from inference.

    Only when: Both appear on the captured record.

  3. 03

    Every transaction and modification is reconciled against the reported figures, and any difference is published as a correction rather than a silent edit.

    Only when: The transaction lineage is complete enough to reconcile.

  4. 04

    Reported amounts are replaced by the actual federal accounting fields — obligation, outlay, current award value — each under its own name.

    Only when: The primary record carries the field.

  5. 05

    This same public address serves the verified receipt. No second record and no second facility is created.

    Only when: Reconciliation is reviewed and accepted.

  6. 06

    Only then do the figures enter award, obligation, outlay, contractor and site totals.

    Only when: Review is complete; capture alone is not sufficient.

Capture alone changes nothing on this page. Each step above waits on the one before it, and the figures enter site totals only after the reconciliation has been reviewed.

What is preserved either way

  • The attributed version of this record, exactly as first published.
  • The research cutoff and the retrieval times of every source cited here.
  • The original attribution to Project Salt Box for the reported order.
  • The full correction history, appended to rather than overwritten.
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Sources, corrections and supersession

Every source behind this record, and exactly what happens to it when the primary award record appears.

Correction history

No correction recorded against this case.

When the award record appears

When the exact primary award record is captured, update this same public case, preserve the attributed version and correction history, reconcile every amount to the primary transaction lineage, and promote only fields the primary record supports. Do not create a duplicate receipt.

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